skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox dev edition defaults to dark mode still as far as I know, though I've personally been using Owl for this for years.
I used chrome from 2008 to about 2013. At the time Chrome was fast and their macOS experience was amazing. But you could tell that Google was focusing more and more on integrations and services and less on the browsing experience.
I suspect we have differing definitions of evidence.
I worked in Finance in 2016 & 2017, on the team that managed the trade & position store for the entire company. We kept a few big graphs up of the important statistics of the day, including total daily trades. Nobody thought much about Brexit because the traders knew that they wouldn’t be so foolish as to vote for it. The pandemonium once everyone realized the vote came back yes was unbelievable. We blew through the record number of trades by a factor of 2x. I thought I’d never see anything like it ... until November 2016.
12 factor apps sacrifice performance and simplicity of your environment for scalability. Unless you are guaranteed to start with a worldwide audience its complete overkill. A better solution is to write your application with the rules in mind with the goal of making it easy to transition to a 12 factor style app when its needed. Scale up then scale out will result in the best performance for your users.
You talk a lot about environmentalism, but Americans basically have no idea what Co Ops are for (why isn't the workplace supposed to be democratic like our other institutions?) and if they have any connotations at all, associate with jointly owned shoddy buildings or nostalgic low-tech cottage industry type stuff.

I might give that stuff more billing, especially given that Amazon is aiming to be the GOAT conglomerate that that should scare people just like global warming does.
I just checked Waterfox does it own by an ad company?

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/waterfox-has-been-sold...
What I tend to find is that importance itself is a shifting concept. I've been at the same company for a few years and worked on many projects in different areas. When I start a new project, I tend to forget a lot of the details of the previous one. Then I later get pulled in for information or for a new project that builds on the previous and that old forgotten information becomes valuable again.

Then there's the fact that the keeping of the wiki itself is something I use for rubber ducking and the Feynmann technique.
Not having to adopt the Euro is also a "special right".

It's not well known, but all EU countries are required to adopt the Euro (except for Denmark who have a real opt-out). The countries who haven't are using a loophole to bypass the requirement of Euro adoption, by purposefully failing to fulfill some standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_eurozone
I have not noticed Fiarefox to be faster
To be totally fair to SUSE, they do have plenty of notable contributions into the "RPM ecosystem". Libsolv, which SUSE wrote for their Zypper package manager, is also used by DNF for example.

They also do plenty of kernel development -- not as much as RH due to sheer size, but still significant. Whereas Canonical doesn't really do any.
Awesome, thanks!! Hope I get a chance to visit one day. I love that people are still keeping these giant piles of cards going.

btw love your blog :-)
Lobster shell patterns make concrete stronger
Covering the sun with a Dyson cube would do the trick.
> As Gijs says, we have limited resources and so have to spend those resources on work that appears to have the most impact on our mission. Based on the available data we have (both the research we performed as well as looking at how Chrome and Edge's implementations are being received) PWAs on desktop fall behind other work right now.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682593
It’s fascinating how many of the Leave arguments, as much as they exist, either boil down to not understanding how the EU works, or blaming the EU for mistakes that the UK government made.
Somewhere on the internet there exists a photo of a boy who looks enraged, looming over a chessboard, captioned (in Impact, probably) "STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE."

"Stop investing the way I don't approve of" is probably what we're seeing here. Some folks are having fun in an unapproved of manner, and to make their situation more impenetrable, they have invented (and reinvent) jargon likely to "trigger" the people who are, as far as I can tell, continually prowling over Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and such, looking for something to be angry over, and better yet, get a bunch of other people to be angry over. Something of defiling an abandoned church so you can have a speakeasy in the basement, where the bluenoses dare not look.

You can tell because most of the criticisms will revolve around some variant of men who have "refused to grow up," whatever that means, but it usually mentions maturity or lack of interest in settling into a harness pulling a plow, like Boxer in Animal Farm. Just as a compare and contrast, when did you last hear "woman-child" as an insult?
UPS Freight was an acquisition of Overnite Transportation several years ago. Not sure how much real integration between the companies ever happened beyond branding.
Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret in London
Additionally, before you ask:

You might argue in this case they could have theoretically backed down restrictions to a lower level, once they saw that the lower level was already having an effect.

But in leadership, it's often good to stay a given course, if it is at all helpful. In this case, it is, You get back down to lower infection numbers faster, thus allowing people more freedoms again sooner.
Google websites work better on chrome. Not sure if it’s because google is doing something nefarious or if Firefox is just not keeping up with google website technologies.

So, I’ve trained my brain to use chrome as an app only for google websites. When I need to check gmail or YouTube or google calendar, I use chrome. Otherwise I’m on Firefox or safari.

It’s worked pretty well. I found I was only really unhappy with Firefox when using google websites. No longer a problem.
As a British supporter of the EU living in the USA - no it isn't, in the slightest. Indeed, the two are so intrinsically linked, it's best not to think of them as separate.
I love O'Reilly's animals. Especially their original tarsier.
It's not zero-sum. Central banks are printing money. People put their gov checks into ETFs. Sure, eventually there'll be a reckoning.
If 84% leave and half are Canadians then at least (84% - 50%) * 2 = 68% of Canadians leave. Meaning best case 1 Canadian stay for every 2 that leave.
Twitter uses these type of cookies. They even use cookies that do not contain any reference to the twitter domain. It is how they track people who have been suspended on the platform
I believe it will be a real LoB intended for growth. Shell has made it clear in shareholder communications that they will greatly expand thier renewables because they see that as the future.
I haven't noticed it to be slower, but I'd accept slower for the privacy benefits.
The terms did not change in a malicous way, because they were already malicious. There never was an opt-out of sharing data with Facebook:

> Specifically, users had 30 days after first seeing the 2016 privacy policy notice to opt out of “shar[ing] my WhatsApp account information with Facebook to improve my Facebook ads and product experiences.” The emphasis is ours; it meant that WhatsApp users were able to opt out of seeing visible changes to Facebook ads or Facebook friend recommendations, but could not opt out of the data collection and sharing itself.

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/its-business-usual-wha...
wow that's a terrible acronym.
Well, that's just how it is. Every election cycle one side will use the tactics of the other side and everyone will call each other hypocrites for it. As a result no one's mind is changed and nothing gets done besides normalizing the worst behaviors and tactics, like violence and censorship.
Airport Express
Gold Rush California Was More Expensive Than Today’s Tech-Boom California(‘15)
I was referring to the full recount[1], and with the larger point being that in 2020 the election didn’t come down to a single state and full hand recounts were actually done. Complaining about a much narrower margin when the single state deciding the election never did a full recount seems far more defensible to me than what we saw this time where the recounts were very similar and the margins in multiple states were at least a full order of magnitude greater, with a backdrop of lying constantly about problems. Hanging chads, over/under-votes, etc. are legitimate concerns – and we can see how many states learned and made them far less common - in a way that fairy tales about mystery ballot drops or dead people voting are not.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20011217183836/http://www.norc.u...
I dont think this is a win for substack. Before this acquisition Substack was probably the leading product in this category. Im sure if Substack polled it’s publishers on what they want most, people would say “more paid subscribers”. Twitter is a platform that can offer this from day 1. A chance to have your newsletter promoted to new eyeballs with a strong interest in what you write about. Substack needs to grow the reader side organically and so the race is on. Substack needs to turn into twitter faster than twitter can build substacks tools. Twitter just acquired a company to accelerate this process. How can substack accelerate?
"Drain the swamp" == "this will fuck over a hedge fund manager".
Great job with Photopea! Definitely the best image editor with Google Drive integration.
Thank you! This is for our first general event to begin organizing the co-op. If you want to financially support, you can buy a ticket for the meeting tonight via the link.
'human rights' and 'freedom of speech' are just tools to undermine Geopolitical competitors.
> This makes no sense. Preprocessor options have no place in CFLAGS, which is for compiler options.

Technically true, but pkg-config does not distinguish between CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.

> If your distribution installs headers outside of the preprocessor path (or somewhere inside CPATH or C_INCLUDE_PATH), then I'd say that this distribution is broken

Both Debian and Red Hat use this path. These libraries are designed to be located with pkg-config, so you can install them anywhere, and everything works as expected.
I’ve seen that argument a few times recently as well but I don’t find it at all persuasive. Public perception of market competition isn’t relevant to antitrust law. That the public is more aware of a company’s anti-competitive behavior doesn’t somehow absolve or even lessen the potential liability for the anti-competitive behavior.

Or perhaps I just don’t understand the point they’re trying to make? I’ve yet to come across this antitrust/branding argument where the rationale has been explained but I’d definitely be curious to hear the legal theory.
600k is a sizable book. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is 600k. And that's the average per-user; most users will never send or receive messages.

The only thing I can imagine is that they do an incredible amount of activity tracking.
All the conservatives I know are going out and buying products from MyPillow. They're rallying behind the company because they see they see the rest of the market as being co-opted by liberal/progressive values.

Has anyone else noticed the irony that opposing Wokeness means buying pillows?
Christianity and Protestantism in particular have historically been sources of antisemitism and this was true up till well within the 20th century.
The fact that hardcore American Christians have now been converted to pro-Israel fanatics, makes the whole thing much weirder, if anything.
Humans understand these things because they are persons. Where did their personhood come from if not another person? How personhood can arise out of non-personhood is unexplained.
I think it is a plot by engineers frustrated with python codebases in the 10s of thousands of lines of code.
Hillary had been claiming Trump's presidency was 'illegitimate' all 4 years. Just one link (there are hundreds of others), for example:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trum...
First people to enter the Americas likely did so with their dogs
It's blatantly obvious that real discussion needs to devolve away from managed platforms, but that's harder.
You would get predictably bad behavior and performance without the statistics collected.
Agreed. These articles about the environmental impact of Bitcoin and PoW are valid, but they're ancient news.

It's telling that there's no mention of Ethererum or PoS. Are they simply unaware? I doubt it. While I'm also concerned about the ability of ETH to smoothly transition to PoS, it would be an enormous win for crypto.

So why publish this article now? It could just be the usual profiting from cyptophobia. But many people probably want prices to go down so they can stock up before the ETH upgrade.
> making Linux distro was a highly unprofitable business.

Actually, for a period,in the dot-boom years, Linux distributions took plenty of investor money. Caldera, anyone? RedHat was "just" one of the few to figure out ways to survive the end of that wave.
> I hope this acquisition is actually a stepping stone for Twitter to become a much better service.

I don't. Centralization of censorship ability in a small number of platforms is a bad thing for everyone. Twitter and Instagram or any other centralized censor becoming a "better service" makes our whole society worse.

It's time to leave Twitter and never look back. Only assholes tell other adults what they're allowed to see or read.

I tolerated Twitter deciding what I was allowed to write for a dozen years. When they started censoring search and dictating what I was allowed to read, I deleted my account.

Sharecropping on someone else's platform is a dead end.
Canada seems to actually understand where they stand relative to the US, which smooths a lot of the negotiations out. The UK on the other hand seems to think that they can bully the EU around and ... that’s not working out so great for them.
As you should be! It is a rube goldberg solution to a massively difficult problem. Nobody has done it at this scale before and switching billions of value over to a whole new consensus model is going to be an insanely difficult computer science / mathematical / social problem to solve.

That said, I do think the core devs will eventually solve it, which I fully support. We have BTC and ETH 1.0 today and that in itself is amazing. I just don't think it will happen as quickly as everyone hopes it will. It can't. There is just too much ever increasing value on the line pushing on both ends of the demand spectrum.

Dan Held has a good thread on power usage:

https://twitter.com/danheld/status/1351235080103096331

Disclosure: I am very large scale eth pow miner that consumes excess hydropower.
Lot of ‘Do as I say, not as I do’.
You could just do it with a bash script and ffmpeg or something if you already have the collection.
> Normally, the fact that practically nobody actually uses Firefox would mean it's not a huge problem.

I assume you mean "practically nobody without an adblocker".
I dread the day we could have to live without Firefox. Don't dismiss it like that, please.
This is too true, too often is the real type signature str. And with all the inconsistency we have in the ecosystem and even standard library it saves you so much esoteric crap.
The internet split long ago, and the vast majority of western consumers won’t give two shits about non-progressive voices getting drowned.

I’m not judging either way, and there is certainly something ironic about Apple using slave labour while taking the moral high ground against hateful assholes and their refusal to moderate.

But it’s the way the wind blows, and you’re honestly not going to be able of resisting.

In the EU we’re certainly going to regulate big tech, but the result wouldn’t lead to Trump not getting banned for inciting violence, if anything it would probably have happened sooner and with a public mandate.

And good luck building a marketable platform out of the users who get kicked off the mainstream internet.
CentOS never had support. It only had "10 years of support" in the sense that it was a mostly compatible downstream rebuild of RHEL which does have long-term support for subscription customers.
It's preferable because people don't want to have to click through multiple screens to do PayPal/Visa Checkout authentication to give somebody $3.

Nobody knows what RSS is either. Even back in mid-00s, I would sometimes struggle to add a blog to my Firefox feed (this was pre-Chrome). On some sites you'd click the RSS button and it would work. On other sites clicking it would display incomprehensible XML markup, causing me to abandon the site.
gif is lossless for images with < 256 colors and good for sharp-edged art according to this.

http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~anderson/images/GIFvsJPEG/compressi...

That would be my guess.
I encountered this problem in archive.org's DOS emulator, and at that time there was an about:config fix for it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1278533
For those who have never used type checking in Python, what's a good introduction?
That's a way to profit from the price falling but it doesn't serve the price-finding function of the market because it doesn't actually increase the supply of shares for sale.
Well almost perfectly. I don't remember many engineers or coders being as attractive as the actors on this show.

I've only been working in this field since about 1997 or so, so I can't speak to what things were like in the 80's. But I can say that I've seen more than a few software engineer / programmer types who were very attractive, or could be if they chose to dress / style themselves so as to play up that aspect.

Not sure if my perception is just "off" or if there was a point in time where this changed. Or maybe it's a geographic thing - I'm on the East Coast (NC specifically).

Still, the old stereotype of the unwashed, nacho and crumbs covered shirt, neckbearded, basement dwelling programmer guy does linger...
It depends. For work related stuff I will always choose speed and responsiveness.
Coordinating with the goal of market manipulation (basically buy/sell/short/pump-and-dump/etc cartels or other) is illegal as far as I know. Hence why the guys who made a lot of money on the negative oil trades are staying very quiet.
I would like to affirm your criticism, because the NYT, WaPo, et al have used such tactics (and others) in misleading ways, which is dishonest and subsequently could be viewed as "fake news".

Sometimes such sources turned out not to be anyone of significance. In other cases, they turned out to be instances of hearsay, or even outdated and irrelevant to the context.

It is shocking that a community such as Hacker News can assert demand for all manner of sources in the scientific and technical fields, but when it comes to news, they are more than willing to accept articles in which anonymous, unverifiable sources dominate.

One could argue that they defer their trust to the integrity of the news source. And to a point, this is reasonable. But it is also reasonable to draw attention to its potential for abuse, especially in "technically true" but "functionally dishonest" ways.

I just think that's hard for some people to acknowledge this potential point of failure/abuse.
I use Gmail, YouTube, Calendar and Sheets through Firefox and never noticed a difference. What's not as good?
Facebook’s settlement on Cambridge Analytica gags UK data watchdog
anybody know if this applies to Temporal Tables? I've thought of using Datomic but it seems like Temporal Tables does the job, not sure about immutability and how that might impact performance because you are now dealing with keeping a timestamp record of every transactions.
Hi,

thank you for the really cool post! I am trying to understand some key concepts here, so please forgive the simple questions:

> 16byte subject/entity | 16 byte predicate/attribute | 32 byte object/value

What would be a difference between subject and entity? Do you include a timestamp of your entries next to your trible?

> Having a fixed size binary representation makes this compatible with most existing databases (...)

Are you using a external look up table to identify the human language definition of the entry, and keep using the 2^128 possible entries for internal use?

> (...) if you want to upgrade your schema (...)

> We stole the context from jsonLD (...)

What were the reasons you did not use jsonLD as a base for your software?

Could you point perhaps point me to a case study of your system, or, if this is not possible, a similar case published in literature/www etc? I would love to learn more what you are doing (my contact is in the my profile).

Wish I could upvote you a couple of times. Thank you.
Eh, I agree in general, but in this case, Chrome implemented network partitioning in Chrome 86, which became stable in October 2020, earlier than Firefox.
Now that I'm working in a very large code base with many engineers (Stripe), I have a new understanding of where type-checking is actually important: documentation.

Yeah you can go in circles for an eternity about which is better and which is worse. I try to stay away from such arguments because they aren't productive.

I do now argue though that as an engineering team and code base gets bigger, you will need static typing to be able to continue to grow at a sustainable pace. Static typing provides a very strong safety net letting people make good, safe changes in code they may not be intimately familiar with.

If you have a small code base and/or small team, then static typing becomes much more of a personal preference.
Who said Censorshsip must be about the government? People do misuse "first amendment violation" but that unlike the concept of censorship, that is a very specific thing. Don't confuse the two.
Alas the amount of information is very small. These release notes usually only cover a fraction and somewhat arbitrary set of changes.

In the past you could look up changes here [1], but updates there stopped a while ago.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap/Updates
Yep it definitely can be, but this just proves the point: not having vendor lock-in is a more useful feature and solves a pain point for people. Imagine if AWS allowed free exfiltration of data and resources (ie eliminated their vendor lock-in), now most people would continue to use AWS.
Airvibe is, apparently, a sex toy.